Warmup #16
800 word challenge:
Write the same scene in third person.
Warmup #15
800 word challenge:
Write a scene in second person.
Warmup #14
500 word challenge:
Write a single paragraph summary of your intended Nano. Then write a thirty-second sales pitch for it.
(Thanks, Wayzgoose!)
Warmup #13
500 word challenge:
Write a fight scene.
Warmup #12
500 word challenge:
Persuade me to buy a car.
What to Write, 2008 Edition
Welcome to this year’s annual installation of “What should I write for Nano?”
Last year I mostly finished To Kill a Goddess, in which a ne’er-do-well is blackmailed into killing his own mother — where the blackmailer is Ares, and the mother is Eris, and the ne’er-do-well is from Las Vegas. Genies, vampires, dragons, leprechauns — and it’s not a comedy.
This year, well, I don’t have as solid a plan as I did when I decided on that plotline.
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Warmup #11
500 word challenge:
Explain to a robot child where little robots and robettes come from.
Warmup #10
500 word challenge:
Rewrite a song as a piece of prose (Ballads work well; Pop songs, not so well). Bonus points if someone else can recognize the song without you having to give it away.
Warmup #9
500 word challenge:
Write a completely honest political speech.
Warmup #8
500 word challenge:
Describe a mundane object as if you’ve never seen it before.